Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society...
...article "When in Doubt, Stop Out" [May 22] is what the philosophy of education should be all about: complementing formal learning (classroom) with the experiences derived from everyday life...
Energy instruction in other cities is generally less formal, though the impact of student thinking has been striking. In the Los Angeles school system, teachers begin focusing on energy at the kindergarten level, urging kids to turn off lights and not to linger in front of an open refrigerator for long, languid looks. Chicago schools have for years been teaching environmental science, with emphasis on energy conservation. Mike Palatnik, a teacher at Sullivan High School, made an intriguing discovery: "Kids want cars and material things, particularly boys. They are often hard to reach. Girls, on the other hand, seem...
...Formal aid would not be the only component of such a plan. One other step that the rich countries should take together is to lower the tariffs and scrap the quotas that keep many products of the LDCS-beef, sugar, cotton textiles, shoes -out of Northern markets. These rising barriers hurt precisely those LDCs, such as Argentina, Brazil, India and Mexico, that have the best chance of building sound economies based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The World Bank estimates that trade barriers cost LDCs $24 billion a year in lost exports of manufactured goods alone...
Although there are, of course, clear status distinctions between the deans and their assistants. Gibson feels employees in her office are treated with respect. Almost everyone there is on a first-name basis, and when more formal titles are used, it's usually because of personal preferences, not on the basis of rank...